Re: Film review


On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Logan Shaw wrote:

> Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> > In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:43:30 +1100
> > TimC <tconnors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>We could use the latter for some of the roads around here. Lay down a
^^^^^^^^^^
> >>brand new surface, then within the week, have it ripped up every 15
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>metres all the way across the roadway to plant new pipelines. 3 years
> >>later, the road is still as bumpy as it was the day after they
> >>"cleaned up".
>
> > Councils hate utilities for just that reason.
>
> Councils and regular citizens alike.
>
> > They come in, rip up the road, and always do a pisspoor job of cleanup.
>
> I never really understood how they're allowed to do that.
[snip]

How much trouble would it be if, while planning to lay down that
surface, to notify the utility companies (power, telephone, cable,
whatever) and tell them, "If you have anything planned for adding new
cable/pipelines/whatever under this road, plan to do them *now* while we
have to rip up the old road to repave it anyway." Tell them that (a) that
way *they* won't have the chore of repaving and (b) if they don't take
advantage of it now then they are forbidden from ripping up anything for
at least a year after the new paving is laid unless it's for an emergency
or for something that couldn't possibly have been forseen at the time the
new paving was laid (such as a new building that needs water, sewage and
power connected to it).

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